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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-28
THE THIRTEENTH DISTRICT
JUDGDSHIP.
Baton Rouge Truth.

It'loH Atot9C ith''''
Governor McEnery, by his proclama
ton ordering an election to be held or
| the eth of December next, to till the
vacancy on the bench Of the Thir'
teenth judicial District, caused by the
death of Judge Hudspeth, is being
Justly censured by the indignant peO-
pie Of St. Landry. This singular tardi,
ness in referring the election to The
people is held up in strong contrast
with the Gubernatorial haste in APP
pointing q successor dd interim by the
| time Judge Hudspeth's body was bare
ly chilled in death.
! There was about one year OF the va
cant term uneXpired, to till which falls
peculiarly within the province of the
| people, for the Office is elective and not
| appointive and the power given the
| Governor to Judge 0d interim is intend
ed merely to avoid Inconvenience that
might result from brief delay il fill
ling vacancies. But how has the Gov
ernor interpreted the law? BY post
poning the election to December 27th,
he has appropriated to himself about
nine months OF the vacant term, mag
unanimously ordering the people to elect
for the remaining three months. HoW
we'll does he guard and protect the
rights of the people, How sound is
the Democracy OF Onr Democratic
Governor
An attempt is made to explain this
extraordinary delay by claiming that
owing to the creation of Acadia out of
St. Landry territory, delay is neces-
sary in order that the Police Juries of
the two parishes may select new pol
ling places, since several of the wards
having been Topped by the dividing
line those voters living in wards left
destitute of polling place would be
DISTINGUISHED should an election be or
dered to take place before the juries
could act. This explanation seems to
us ridiculous. Under the act creating
Acadia the police jury was directed to
establish precincts and polling places
the parish, as Il matter of
fact this has been done and a parish
election held under the law. SO much
for Acadia.
As for St Landry, Sec. of Act lei
Of 1882, amending Act IS of 1877, di- |
reefs the Governor to "appOlnt a re- !
turning officer for each parish, who /
shall appoint the commissioners of /
and designate the polling
places in each election precinct" If /
there is any subsequent enactment on .
this subject we would like to see if. 1t !
IS manifest from the above that the in /
.ervcntiOn of the st. Landry police |
ury is not required by law, but that |
he returning officer has all the power
necessary to see that every citizen Of
st. Landry parish has a polling place at
which to east his ballot. The only way
II which the Governor can repair the
injury he has done the voters of the
District will be to withdraw
lis proclamation and Issue another or
lering an election within the ordinary
Ielay. 1t is enlinrntiy proper for him
o do this or show some law subsequent
o 1882 that SuStainS his action.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-28
A Sound Legal Opinion.

+, cambridge Mnnday Esq. County
Atty, Clay Co, Tex says: Have used
Electric Bitters with most happy results.
My brother also was very low with Ma
larial Fever and Jaunbice, but was cur
ed by timely use of this medicine. Am
satisfied Electric Bitters saved his life"
Mr.. ID. |. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
Ky, adds like testimony, saying: He
positively believes he would have died,
had it not been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward Off as
well as cure all Malarial Diseases, and
for all Kidney, Liver and, Stomach Dis
orders stands unequaled. Price SOC. and
81. at M. z. Young g. Cos. 6
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-28

The Governor claims that all pooling
places must be fixed by the Police Ju-
ries six months before an election. We
"a located the Bayou Pigeon precinct
in accordance with this law.-Baton
Rouge Truth.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-28

Rural Farmer: There is one method
of saving bones which should not be
over looked. 1t is to keep barrel OF
I've convenient, into which all the re-
fuse bones should be dropped. The
r is that ph1sphattee, Of potash viii i
of the most valuable fertilizers known.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-28

al wouldn't be fool if | We're you
!" No. you wouldn't" responded the
other, "but | would be if ! were
you."-Ex.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-28

4 friend walked into our office the
other day and asked us the following
questions. How long before there viii
be but 90 students i'll attendance at the
Baton Rouge Agricultural College, at
the present rate OF decrease:
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-28

him. He laughed in our face and de-
clared we knew nothing about Ialcu
lus." Our friends answer was, "aever
as long as appropriations holds out
Robeline Reporter
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03
lola AT WORK.
The Care with Which the French Novaxiss
Revises His Works.

The Care with Which the French Novaxasr
Revises His Works.
lola writes every thing himself; he
never has secretary for his extensive
correspondence. He even seals his
wrappers and addresses them when he
sends his friends bros res or his trans
lators material. He also writes his lit
erary manuscript himself. Out of it
the printers compose what are called
"placards Large pages with four gil
gantic columns of text. These are sent
to the author carefully revised and free
from errors, and then lola begins to
correct. He fills the wide margin all
round with hundreds of marks and let
tiers; ink lines cut through the text, thin
threads run crossways and diagonally,
entwining like lasso sentence scrib-
bled in an open space; scarcely line is
exempted from the hieroglyphics of the
master.
Here a note of Interrogation must
make room for one of exclamation; here
a semicolon is changed into a full point;
a comma before or after the ct effect
lively divides phrase; participles are
replaced by adjectives; substantives
take the place of pronouns; redundant
adverbs must also disappear; the past
definite is substituted for the ''imper-
fect;" more descriptive words supply
the place of tame ones; for an sxpres-
sion repeated in five or six pages a
synonym is introduced; whole phrases
are remodeled. sentences are condensed
into two or three words, and even half
columns are ruthlessly consigned at
once into the compositor's type-case.
1t must be bitter task to break up
the print again, but there is no help for
it. The extra fees charged elsewhere
on authors for corrections are not
known; nobody complains; author and
publisher rival each other in common
endeavor after perfection. After such
. corrected text the Paris journal prints,
and the translations are done in exactly
the same way.-Auoenaeine Zeitusg.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03
Proper Feeding Of Sheep.

Ii the sheep that are kept on barren
places where the heritage is scanfy arc
noticed, it viii be seen that the tend
ency is for their bodies to grow iois
and thin, instead Of round and com
pact, like those kept on good pastures
They will be found long-legged' 700
and quite different in every way IRON
those that have had the benefit o. thss
care which tends to develop the sneep
to its full capacity. improvement y
sheep may be effected by selection y
breeding, but no matter now musa
pains is taken in this direction unless
proper attention Is given to feeding
them, little permanent impreTemen y
cam be madein flock. AT the Dossol ~
of all success in rais;t.s sheep, - wsn
as other kinds Of livestock, lies luai'
cious feeding. and there i no other SUI !! =,
iect that merits more careful atten W.
from breeders. National Live- S1oss
Journal
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03
FARM AND FlRESlDE

Bags of all kinds now chang s.
over the house," and contribute ID Il. rs
general decoration thereof.-E ?
Nail.
Give the poultry pure water i MIN
ter as well as in summer, and heat /,
before pouring it into the drinking Va.
sel.--RuraI Ncso Yorke,
MIR. Stahl, in the Indiana Fur,n.,
thinks that women usually make better.
bee-keepers than men. Bees, he says
must be treated like children, kindly,
and patiently, and such work woman.
does better than man.
The Farm Journal humorously oh
serves that if the craze for hornless cat.
tie becomes universal. the ave.age COW
doctor who knows but two disaases
"hollow-horn" and "wolf in the tai,n
will find half his occupation gone. n
will have to confine his practice exclu.
sively to the tail.
Mock Mince Pies: Pulverize three
square crackers, one cup of BOILING
water, one cup each of brown sussy
and molasses, one-half cup each n
butter and vinegar, one cup Of chopped
raisins. two eggs, one teaspoonful each
of cloves, cinnamon and allspice and i
very little pepper. Stir all together
and heat This makes three pies.
Please try and report. The Household
Water can not satisfy the thirst
which attends cholera. dysentery.
diarrhea and some other forms Of al.
eases; in fact, drinking cold wates
seems to increase the thirst and induce
other disagreeable sensations; but the
first will be perfectly and pleasantly
subdued by eating comparative small
amount of ice, swallowing it in as large
pieces as practicable and as much IS il
ed.-HeatM and Home.
Queen Victoria Cake: With one
pound of white sugar, cream. pound
of best butter, add fourteen ounces a
flour, a little at time, and the well
beaten whites of eighteen eggs; favor
with rose water; bake. Ice with almond
icing. You can ice this cake with plain
icing and lay on the icing (blanched
| almonds) in the form of daisies, after
wards coating them with icing and gill
ing in their centers with icing made Of
the yellow of eggs.-Detroa Free Press
--Scalloped Potatoes: Cut up cold
boiled potatoes until you have about
quart. Put in a pan generous cup
of milk, one teaspoonful Of four, and
one tablespoonful of butter. Set on the
stove and let it thicken, then pat layer
of potatoes in a pudding dish, season
with salt and pepper. and pour out a
little of the gravy. Continue until all
is used. Cover the top with rolled
cracker crumbs and bits Of hutter.
Bake twenty minutes. - Exchange.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03
BONE SPAWN.
A Serious Affection Which Requires Pains.
taking Treatment.

A Serious Affiiction which Requires Palms.
taking Treatment. Ia
A bone SPAWN is, in a sense. incur
able, because it consists of "a growth Of
bone at the hook Joint, usually at the
inner side, which can not be removed.
This SPAWN il the result of in6amma
ton of the covering membrane Of the
bone, and this causes the growth Of
spongy bony matter which in time
covers the joint and makes it solid and
immovable. At the first there Is no
lameness. but some heat and tender
ness, hence this disease is SO often left
until it is too late for cure. II when
the horse is first seen to suffer In one OF
the hind legs the hook joint is examined
and the heat is discovered it is treated
by means of cold water dressings and
afterward by blistering, the bonespayin
may be prevented. After the new and
diseased growth has started the pain i
intense on movement of the joint, and
the horse is very lame. Then blistering
must be resorted to. but the bone re-
mains to be a permanent cause OF lame
ness whenever the joint is used more
hardly than usual. Blood SPAWN is the
result of Inflammation of the parts o.
the limb that are affected by bone ana
bog spavins, the hook joint and the
lower part of the leg, and. being dila-
tation of the veins, should not be inter-
fered with. It does not cause lame
ness, but is only a blemish. Bog spayin
is sometimes called blood SPAWN, but y
really soft swelling about the mock
joint or on the line OF tentlons below u.
It rarely causes lameness and - the re-
suit of effusion of lymph or serum 10 sne
covering membrane OF the tendon caused
by Inflammation or a sprain. Spavins
are almost always hereditary and Inc
result of breeding from spawned mares,
but they arise also from injudlclous
driving rapidly down hill, BY which 700
much strain is thrown upon the tendons
and concussion of the hook jointoccurs.
Cold water dressings, with pressure
pads on the soft bog spaylns, ana
blistering, with rest while under treat
| luent, comprise the proper treatment
| Puncturing the soft spagins 10 o danger,
ols mistake as vein may be ope''su
| isnorantly.-N 7. Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03
Some Misused Words.

Acoustics is always singular
Cut bias, and not cut on the bias.
Allow should not be used for admit.
Come to see me, and not come and
see me.
Bursted is not elegant and is rarely
correct.
Almost, with negative. is ridicu-
lous. almost nothing is absurd.
The burden of song means the re-
frain or chorus, not its sense or mean
ing.
Bountiful applies to persons, not to
things, and has no reference to d
quantity.
Affable only applies Yben speaking
of the manner of superi6fs. to interiors.
Methinks is formed by the impersonal
verb think, meaning seem, and the
datiye me; and is literally rendered, II
seems to 1lcced's Neao Grammar
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03

The Cinnamon of Newark, N. j.,
are anxious to become American citi-
zens. Recently they held a meeting and
appointed a committee to 60 to Wash
ington to seeif something can't be done
by which they may be permitted to taiSe
out naturalization papers. They intend,
they say, never to return TO the Flowery
kingdom, and wish to settle down here
and enjoy all the privileges that an
American citizen possesses.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03

NEVER think that you can make yourself
great by making another less.-Rr, j.
VAUGHAN
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03

ly in his habits, sometimes picked out Of
the ditch, sometimes too filthy to be picked
| out; Thomas Paine one would have
| thought that he could have been depended
on for steadfastness against this great de-
fusion. But no. In his dying hour he begs
the Lord Jesus Christ for mercy.
| Powerful delusion, ell~conquering de,u-
sion earthquaking delusion Of the Chris
tian religion. Yea, it goes on, it is SO i'm
pertinent, and it is so overbearing, this CHI
mera of the Gospel, that having conquered
| the great picture galleries of the world,
| the old masters and the young mas tiers, as
l showed in former Sc rmon, it is not sat.
isfied until it has conquered the music OF
| the world. Look over the programme of
| that magnificent musical festival a few
| years ago in New York and see what were
the great performances, and learn that the
| greatest OF all the subjects were
| religious subjects. What was it one nigh,
when three Thousand voices were accom-.
panied with a vast number of Instruments
Israel in Egypt" Yes, Beethoven de.
| luded until he wrote the high mass in d
major. Haydn deluded with this religion
until he wrote the Creation" Handel de.
laded until he wrote the oratorios: "Jeph-
| thah," and Esther" and "Saul,n and
| .Israel in Egypt" and the Messiah On
the closing night {, 600 deluded people sing.
| ing OF delusion to eight thousand deluded
| hearers.
Yes, this chimera of the Gospel 5 not
| satisfied until it goes or and builds itself
into the most permanent architecture, SO
/, 1t seems :, il the world In never going to
| get rid of it What are some of the finest
| buildings in the worlda St. Paurs, st
Peters, the churches and cathe.arals Of ali
| Chrlstendom. Yes, this impertinence OF
the Gospel, this vast delusion. is not salts.
! ded until it projects itself. and ip one year
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-06-08
Extraordinary Powers in the Feeble
Minded.

|
II is strange but well known fact
that in many persons who are idiotic or
but little removed from the mental con-
dition of idiots, certain powers of the
mind may be developed TO an extraor-
dinary degree.
Remarkable precocity in the power of
arithmetical calculations is frequently
combined with a positive deficiency in
other directions. In institutions devo-
ted to the care of feeble-minded chill
dren such examples are nearly always
present. Deficient in some faculties,
others are developed to excess. Some
such can carve and draw with great
skill. Extraordinary memory is often
met with associated with very great de-
feet or reasoning. One boy, in reading
Gibbons Rise and Fall of the Roman
Empire" skipped a line on the third
page at the first perusal. Ever after,
when reciting from memory the stately
periods of Gibbon, he would, on COM
ing to the third page, skip the line aud
retrace his steps, just as when he first
recommitted the passage to memory.
Often the memory takes the form of
remembering dates and past events.
One boy never failed TO tell correctly
the name and address of every confec-
toner's shop he had visited in London,
and could as readily tell the date of
every visit. The faculty of number is
usually slightly developed in feeble
minded children, while memory is fairly
well developed; yet occasionally the
power of mental arithmetic has been
well developed. improvisation is an
occasional faculty. Memory of tune is
very common faculty among the
feeble-minded; they readily acquire
simple airs, and rarely forget them.
In none of the cases of idiot savants
has there been any history of the pos
session of n similar faculty by the par
ents or sisters or brothers. In one case
necropsy is reported by DR.. J. l..
Down, of London. The boy had re-
markable, indeed perfect, appreciation
OF past or passing time. There was no
difference from au ordinary brain, with
the exception that there were two we'll
marked and distinct soft commisSures.
DR.. Downs explanation of the phc-
nomenon was that, as every movement
of the house was absolutely punctual,
he had data from which he could esti-
mate the time by accurate appreciation
of its flux.
Every form of mental deviation may
be met with in the congenital feeble
minded. They may become the sub
jects of acute and chronic mania, of
acute and chronic melancholia, and of
dementia. Occasionally under the in
fiuence of acute mania, the feeble in
tellect Of theyouth becomes famed into
a brighter frame. The taciturn may
become loquacious; the timid and re-
spectful proud and defiant; the amiable
and tractahle, abusive and destructive.
Three remarkable instances occurred
to DR.. Down of boys who had never
been able to speak making use of we'll
fora ed sentences during the high fe-
brile state Of acute pneumonia or scar
latina.
1t is of much interest to report all
such cases, as they throw great light on
the workings of the human mind in
health
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-06-08
England When the Romans Came
There.

At the first coming of the Romans by
far the larger part of the country was
probably covered with wood. During
the centuries of Roman occupation
some of the less dense parts of the
woodland were cleared. In driving their
magnificent straight highways through
the country the Roman legionaries felled
the trees for 20 yards on each side Of
them to secure them from the arrows of
a lurking foe. So stupendous was the
labor involved in this task that they
gladly avoided forests where that was
possible, and sometimes even swung
their roads to right or left to keep clear
of these formidable obstacles. For
many hundreds of years after the de-
parture of the legions vast tracts of
primeval forest remained as impenetra-
BILE barriers between different tribes.
In these natural fastnesses the wolf,
brown bear, and wild boar still found
secure retreat. Even as late as the
twelfth century the woods to the north
of London swarmed with wild boars
and wild oxen. Everywhere, too, the
broken men of the community betook
themselves TO these impenetrable re-
treats, where they lived by the chase,
and from whence they issued for pluE-
der and bloodshed. The forests were
thus from time immemorial singularly
important element in topography.
They have now almost entirely disap-
peared, AMI their former sites have as
yet only been partially determined,
though much may doubtless still be
done in making our knew.edge of them
more complete.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-06-08
HOW TO CHOOSE FISH.
In Easy Way OF Telling Whether
They Are Fit to Eat or not.

Salmon, pike, bluefsh, whitefsh,
front. carp, trench, grayling, carbel,
chub, ruff, eel, whiting, smelt, shad, +,
pickerel, etc., are known to be fresh or
stale by the smell and coiCx of their
gills, the hanging or keeping up of the
fins, and the standing out or sinking of
the eyes.
II sturgeon cuts without crumbling,
the veins and gristles are a genuine
blue and the flesh perfectly white, it is
good.
Cod and codling can be chosen by the
thickness near the head and whiteness
of the flesh when cut.
Turbot should be chosen by its
thickness and plumpness; if the fish is
thick and the belly of a cream color, it
will be palatable! if otherwise, it is not
good.
The gills of herring and mackerel
should be of q bright red, the eyes full
and the fish stiff, when dusky and ia
ded, and the tails very pliable, they are
stale.
Skate and thornback are chosen by
their thickness; the female skate is the
sweetest, especially if large.
The best Holsters are the heaviest if
there is no water in them; if fresh the
tail will be full of hard or red-skinned
meat. A cock lobster is known by mar
row back part of the tail and the two
uppermost fins within his tail are stiff
and hard; the hen is soft and the back
of her tail is broader.
Ii the flesh of picked salmon feels
oily and the scales stiff and shining,
and 1t comes in flakes and parts with
out crumbling. it is fresh and good,
but not otherwise.
Prawns, Shrimps and Crawfish-The
first two, if stale. will be very pliable,
pale in color, and the body Shiny; the
last will be pl;able in their claws and
joints, color blackish, and smell badly
under their throats.
Picked and Red Herring-For the
first open the back to the bone; if the
fish is white, faky and oily, the bone
white Tor bright redl, they ne good. If
the latter bears a good CLOS, parts well
from the bone and is sweet, it is good
also.
In selecting dried ling, choose that
which is thickest in the poll and Of a
bright yellow.
For dried Goldfish, chose that which
is tbickest, that will lightly part in
flakes, has a somewhat transparent ap-
pearance, and looks and feels dry.
Bluefsh, wheak-fish, and most of his
kind, may be known by their softness
and dull appearance.